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Please explain the <br />impact of your <br />organization on the <br />Orange County <br />community in a <br />typical year. <br />NC AIA serv es Rashkis Elementary School and its 493 students. Our <br />program’s culminating performances are for the entire school and <br />community, with typically 1500 watching the two performances. <br />Arts in Action’s expertise is teaching children how to find excellence <br />in themselv es. Through an engaging pedagogy that uses dance as <br />the main v ehicle of instruction, our programs address three specific <br />needs: <br />* the dev elopment of critical life skills such as leadership, teamwork, <br />self-confidence, self-discipline, focus, resilience and commitment to <br />excellence; <br />* the promotion of healthy lifestyles, academic dev elopment and <br />appreciation for the arts and humanities through intensiv e physical <br />activ ities that can be practiced outside the classroom; and <br />* the prov ision of inclusiv e performing arts opportunities that are <br />integrated with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and the <br />North Carolina Common Core State Standards. <br />"NC Arts in Action is so much more than a dance program. These <br />children hav e learned extraordinary lessons that they can apply to <br />many other areas of life. Arts in Action gav e them an opportunity to <br />excel, inspired them to care about themselv es and their peers, and <br />set a high standard of excellence that many would hav e thought <br />unreachable. I can’t say enough about what Arts in Action did for my <br />students." - Principal <br />Please explain your <br />intended use of a <br />Restart the Arts <br />Grant, if awarded. <br />Our Rashkis School program has been funded by OCAC and also in <br />former years by the Rashkis PTA. Since there was no in school <br />program this past year, there was no PTA fundraiser to help pay for <br />our program. Our Restart the Arts grant will pay for the Lead <br />Teaching Artist, the Teaching Assistant and the Musician for <br />Rashkis’ 16 -week in-school program this year. It will also pay for the <br />props for the theme, T-shirts for each fourth-grade student as the <br />“costume” for the performances, and for the liv e band on the day of <br />the performance. Our costs to hold this program are $25,000 per <br />school. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 1681A9E1-F01B-474E-8571-49803695781C